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Research data management guidelines

Managing data

What is research data management and why manage it, data management planning and a Research Data Management Planning Checklist for creating data management plans.
Storing data

Where to store research data, durable formats, metadata and documentation, organising data, security and backups and retention periods
Sharing and archiving data

Why share research data, archiving, controlling access to research data and data citation.
Finding data

Where to find data, a toolkit and resources and information about the Seeding the Commons project.
Ethics and research data

Ethical requirements and ethics and data sharing.
Copyright, IP and Policy

Copyright, IP and research data, institutional policy and Codes from the ARC and NHMRC relevant to managing research data.

This website was created as part of the ANDS Seeding the Commons project and draws upon a number of resources acknowledged below:

Monash University, University of Queensland, Newcastle University, Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Guides, Mantra Research Data Management Training and the UK Data Archive: Managing and Sharing Data.

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